From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
awesome
adj 1: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an
amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring
sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this
sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some
hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing
majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing,
awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Awesome \Awe"some\, a.
1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
--Wright.
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2. Expressive of awe or terror.
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An awesome glance up at the auld castle. --Sir W.
Scott.
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